From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:46:25 -0400, Adam  wrote:   
      
   > I'm running a stock Mandriva 2011.0 64-bit here on my "production"   
   > system, and as of now its only 'net connection is wired (eth0).  When I   
   > power up the system, it automatically connects to eth0.  However, when I   
   > try to shut it down with "poweroff" or "shutdown now" (or even   
   > "reboot"), it hangs at "Started Show Plymouth Power Off Screen" and   
   > won't continue with shutdown unless I press alt-sysrq-e (kill all   
   > processes).  I was able to discover that the culprit is "ifplugd" -- if   
   > I "killall ifplugd" before entering the shutdown command, then it does a   
   > complete shutdown neatly.  (For some reason, ifplugd is usually running   
   > twice, both times with "-I -b -i eth0".)  I even tried using the 32-bit   
   > version of ifplugd with its associated libraries, but had the same   
   > problem.  A search online didn't find anything relevant, so apparently   
   > it's not a common problem.   
   >   
   > My obvious question is, does anyone know of a solution or a workaround?   
      
   I don't have Mandriva installed anymore, to check, but is vnstat installed?   
      
   It may be a copy of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3074   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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